Purpose: Assessment of functional health and health related quality of life (HRQL) of childrenwith cerebral palsy (CP) are important for effective rehabilitation practices. Therefore, thepresent study was aimed to provide a Turkish version of PODCI which is one of the prevalentlyused HRQL scales in CP, to investigate reliability and validity of the scale for children with CP.Methods: Age range was between 2 and 18 years, 105 children with CP, 48 healthy childrenand their mothers were recruited for the study subjects were divided into three age groups, i.e.2-7, 8-12, and 13-18. GMFCS levels, clinical types, demographical and socio-economical data ofthe cases with CP, PODCI scores and also PedsQL and CHQ PF-50 scores as a gold standard, ofparticipants were recorded. Results: Findings of the reliability of PODCI showed that theinternal consistency was acceptable and test-retest reliability was quite high (Alpha=0.93,ICC=0.992). Findings of the validity of the scale indicated that it was highly sensitive inseparating children with CP from healthy children (p<0.001). The scale could differ age groups,clinical types and GMFCS groups only in the physical functioning domain (p<0.05). Thecorrelations among subscales of three scales illustrated that the convergent validity wasestablished while divergent validity was low. Conclusion: Turkish version of PODCI is reliableand valid for assessing functional health and HRQL of children with CP.